Michael Battle

Ubuntu

I in You and You in Me

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The book features a foreword by Archbishop Desmond Tutu.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Church Publishing Inc
• Seitenzahl: 166
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Mai 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 217mm x 141mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 242g
• ISBN-13: 9781596271111
• ISBN-10: 1596271116
• Artikelnr.: 25512402

Autorenporträt

Michael Battle has taught at General Theological Seminary in New York where he was the Herbert Thompson Professor of Church and Society and Director of the Desmond Tutu Center. He holds an undergraduate degree from Duke University, received his MDiv from Princeton Theological Seminary, an MST from Yale University and a PhD in theology and ethics, also from Duke University. He was ordained a priest by Archbishop Desmond Tutu in 1993. In 2010, Battle was given one of the highest Anglican Church distinctions as "Six Preacher," by the Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams. Battle’s academic experience includes service as interim dean of Students and Community Life at Episcopal Divinity School, dean for academic affairs, vice president and associate professor of theology at Virginia Theology Seminary; as associate professor of spirituality and black church studies, at Duke University’s Divinity School; and as assistant professor of spiritual and moral theology in the School of Theology at the University of the South. He has served as chaplain to Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Congressman John Lewis, the House of Bishops in the Episcopal Church, and to the Lambeth Conference of Anglican Bishops. Battle has published nine books, including Reconciliation: the Ubuntu Theology of Desmond Tutu, and Ubuntu: I in You and You in Me. He lives in Knightdale, North Carolina.